Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 01-20-2025.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom available to be downloaded.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


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Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 01 A-Basing. London: St Catherine Press, 1910. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Vol 1 also available at http://archive.org/completepeerageo01coka Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP I [Ap][p0-9].*].
  2. Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday Descendants, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol II: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 2. Corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-descendants-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p[0-9]*].
  3. Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday People, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol I: Domesday Book. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 1. Corrections in Volume II (Domesday Descendants) pp 4-5. Further corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-people-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p[0-9]*].
  4. Sanders, I. J., English Baronies, A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086-1327. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sanders Baronies p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
father:
illeg son [Ref: CP I p20, Keats-Rohan DD p224, Keats-Rohan DD p877],
mother:
[Ref: CP I p20(a)]
Sources for death Information
date:
after 1147, probably before 1149 [Ref: Sanders Baronies p93(4)]
after 1148 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p775]
by 1150 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p877]
Sources with Information about marriage to Matilda CRESPIN
date:
abt 1112 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p877]
abt 1113 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p297]
before 1113 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p621]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
date:
second marriage of Maud [Ref: CP I p20(b), Sanders Baronies p93],
names:
Brien fitz Count & Maud widow of Miles CRISPIN [Ref: CP I p20(b), Sanders Baronies p93]
Research Notes:
2nd Lord Abergavenny [Ref: CP I p20]

raised by Henry I, and became a favorite of his [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p224]

educated at the court of Henry I, probably from 1106 until his marriage abt 1112 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p877]

possessed the honour of Abergavenny, which he held by either a grant to him and his wife, or else solely in her right [Ref: CP I p20]

successor of Wigod as lord of Wallingford [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p143]

favorite of Henry I, many of whose charters he attested [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p877]

after 1107: controlled the honour of Wallingford until the later years of Stephen's reign; the honour came to the crown early in the reign of Henry II [Ref: Sanders Baronies p93]

especially famout for his vigorous support of Henry's daughter Matilda during the civil war [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p877]

granted the church of Hillingdon to Evesham [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p143]

before 1119: Welsh Magnate [Ref: CP I p20]

1141-2: transferred the honour of Abergavenny to Miles of Gloucester, Earl of Hereford, for service of 3 knights [Ref: CP I p20]

1147: last mentioned in chronicles; in 1149 Maud founded the priory of Ogbourne St George, and the charter doesn't mention Brien [Ref: Sanders Baronies p93(4)]

1148: became a monk [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p775]

1148: became a monk, doubtless at Reading Abbey [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p877]

d.s.p [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p877]



Pedigree of Brien Fitz Count, Lord Of Abergavenny
                                     /-----Budic Count Of Cornuaille
                            /-----Benoit Count Of Cornuaille
                   /-----Alain Cagnairt Count Of Cornuaille
                  |         \-----Guinodeon
          /-----Hoel Count Of Cornouille
         |        |                                    /-----Matuedoi Count Of Poher
         |        |                           /-----Alain II Barbe Torte Count Of Nantes
         |        |                          |        |         /-----Adam I The Great Count Of Nantes And Vannes, Duke Of Brit
         |        |                          |         \-----(Unk Dau)
         |        |                          |                  \-----Oreguen
         |        |                  /-----Hoel Count Of Nantes
         |        |         /-----Judicael Count Of Nantes
         |         \-----Judith Of Nantes
         |                  \-----Melisende
 /-----Alan IV Fergent Duke Of Brittany
|        |                                                      /-----Adam I The Great Count Of Nantes And Vannes, Duke Of Brit
|        |                                             /-----Paskurtan Count Of Rennes
|        |                                            |         \-----Oreguen
|        |                                    /-----Judhael Count Of Rennes
|        |                                   |        |         /-----Berenger Count Of Rennes
|        |                                   |         \-----(Unk Dau) Heiress Of Rennes
|        |                           /-----Conan I Duke Of Brittany
|        |                          |         \-----Gerberge
|        |                  /-----Geoffrey Duke Of Brittany
|        |                 |        |                           /-----Fulk Le Roux Count Of Anjou
|        |                 |        |                  /-----Fulk II The Good Count Of Anjou
|        |                 |        |                 |         \-----Roscilla
|        |                 |        |         /-----Geoffrey I Grisgonelle Count Of Anjou
|        |                 |        |        |        |         /-----Gausfred Count Of Nevers
|        |                 |        |        |         \-----Gerberga Of Nevers
|        |                 |        |        |                  \-----Aba
|        |                 |         \-----Ermengarde Of Anjou
|        |                 |                 |                  /-----Herbert II Count Of Vermandois
|        |                 |                 |         /-----Robert Count Of Troyes
|        |                 |                 |        |         \-----Hildebrante/Liegarde/Adela
|        |                 |                  \-----Adele Of Troyes
|        |                 |                          |         /-----Giselbert Duke Of Burgandy
|        |                 |                           \-----Adelaide Of Burgundy
|        |                 |                                    \-----Ermengarde Of Burgandy
|        |         /-----Alan III Duke Of Brittany
|        |        |        |                                    /-----Ketil
|        |        |        |                           /-----Hrolfr (Rollo) Duke Of Normandy
|        |        |        |                  /-----William Longspee Duke Of Normandy
|        |        |        |                 |        |         /-----Berenger Count Of Bayeux
|        |        |        |                 |         \-----Poppa
|        |        |        |                 |                  \-----(Unk Dau)
|        |        |        |         /-----Richard I The Fearless Duke Of Normandy
|        |        |        |        |         \-----Espriota
|        |        |         \-----Hawise Of Normandy
|        |        |                 |         /-----(Unk) Forquelar Of Cirques
|        |        |                  \-----Gunnora
|         \-----Hawise Of Brittany
|                 |                                             /-----Eudes Count Of Chartres
|                 |                                    /-----Theobald Viscount Of Troyes
|                 |                                   |         \-----(Unk Dau)
|                 |                           /-----Theobald I Le Tricheur Count Of Blois
|                 |                          |        |         /-----Hugh Count Of Bourges
|                 |                          |         \-----Richilde Of Bourges
|                 |                          |                  \-----Rothaut
|                 |                  /-----Eudes I Count Of Blois
|                 |                 |        |                  /-----Herbert I Count Of Vermandois
|                 |                 |        |         /-----Herbert II Count Of Vermandois
|                 |                 |        |        |         \-----Beatrice Of Morvois
|                 |                 |         \-----Luitgarde De Vermandois
|                 |                 |                 |         /-----Robert I King Of France
|                 |                 |                  \-----Hildebrante/Liegarde/Adela
|                 |                 |                           \-----Aelis
|                 |         /-----Eudes II Count Of Blois
|                 |        |        |                           /-----Rudolph I King Of Upper Burgundy
|                 |        |        |                  /-----Rudolph II King Of Juran Burgundy And Provence
|                 |        |        |                 |         \-----Wille
|                 |        |        |         /-----Conrad The Peaceful King Of Burgundy
|                 |        |        |        |        |         /-----Burkhard Duke Of Swabia
|                 |        |        |        |         \-----Berthia Of Swabia
|                 |        |        |        |                  \-----Reginlanda
|                 |        |         \-----Bertha Of Burgandy
|                 |        |                 |                  /-----Charles III The Simple King Of Franks
|                 |        |                 |         /-----Louis IV D'OUTRE-MER, King Of Franks
|                 |        |                 |        |         \-----Edgiva
|                 |        |                  \-----Matilda Of France
|                 |        |                          |         /-----Henry I The Fowler King Of The Saxons
|                 |        |                           \-----Gerberga Of Saxony
|                 |        |                                    \-----Mechtilde Of Westfalen
|                  \-----Bertha Of Blois
|                          |                                    /-----Robert I Vicount Of Auvergne
|                          |                           /-----Robert II Vicount Of Auvergne
|                          |                          |         \-----Adelgarde
|                          |                  /-----William V Count Of Auvergne
|                          |                 |        |         /-----Damas Vicomte De Brioude
|                          |                 |         \-----Ingelberga Dame De Beaumont In Chalonais
|                          |                 |                  \-----Engelberge
|                          |         /-----Robert I Count Of Auvergne
|                          |        |         \-----Umberge
|                           \-----Ermengarde Of Auvergne
|                                   |                           /-----Heraclius
|                                   |                  /-----Bertrand De Gevaudan
|                                   |                 |         \-----Gode
|                                   |         /-----Stephen De Brioude
|                                   |        |        |         /-----Etienne Vicount Of Brioude
|                                   |        |         \-----Emilgarde
|                                   |        |                  \-----Ermengarde
|                                    \-----Ermengarde
|                                            |                  /-----Fulk Le Roux Count Of Anjou
|                                            |         /-----Fulk II The Good Count Of Anjou
|                                            |        |         \-----Roscilla
|                                             \-----Adelaide (Blanch) Of Anjou
|                                                     |         /-----Gausfred Count Of Nevers
|                                                      \-----Gerberga Of Nevers
|                                                               \-----Aba
Brien Fitz Count, Lord Of Abergavenny
|         /-----Dru De BALLON
 \-----Lucy De BALLON



Descendants of Brien Fitz Count, Lord Of Abergavenny
1. Brien Fitz Count, Lord Of Abergavenny m. Matilda CRESPIN
m. Matilda CRESPIN father: Miles CRESPIN, Baron Of Wallingford mother: Maud Lady Of Wallingford